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Title: The Bible and missions
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Montgomery, Helen Barrett, 1861-1934
Subjects: Bible Bible Missions
Publisher: West Medford, Mass., Central committee of the United study of foreign missions
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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entireNew Testament and learned the gospel of the resur-rection, a new light shone in his face; and this be-came the badge of his discipleship instead of theblack band which he took from his arm.Ministry to the In addition to the regular work of thesoldiers. Bible Societies there is their wonder- ful ministry to the soldiers in time of war. In theCrimean and Franco-Prussian Wars, the War ofItalian Liberation, the Boer War, the Russo-Japa-nese War, and, most of all, in the great World War thepresses have been kept running night and day tosupply the demands of the army. The American BibleSociety has issued for the use of soldiers and sailors,since the World War began, 4,541,455 volumes.For the fighting forces in Europe the Society hassupplied 1,846,488 Scriptures in whole or in part sincethe War began. The British and Foreign Bible Socie-ty has distributed 7,000,000 Bibles, Testaments, andportions during the same period, not only among thetroops of the British Empire, and the Allies and
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MISS ANNA JOHNSON—MR. WM. McPHERSON Teaching a Blind and Crippled Man to Read Braille with his Tongue. The Travels of the Book i6i assistants, but also among all their foes, in the very-ranks of their bitterest enemies. The National BibleSociety of Scotland has distributed during four andone-half years 5,020,000 Bibles, Testaments, orportions. In all more than sixteen and one-halfmillion copies have been distributed in eighty-onelanguages; thirty-four languages originating in Eu-rope, five in Asia Minor, twelve in Asia, eighteen inAfrica, three in North America, and nine in the Is-lands of the Seas. Such a distribution, with the accompanying first-hand acquaintance of the Scriptures gained by sol-diers not alone in the camps and hospitals of Europe,but in Egypt, in war-torn Equatorial Africa, inArabia, Mesopotamia, Syria, Asia Minor, Persia,and China, is one of the profoundest efforts for thefurtherance of the gospel proceeding from thegreat World War. A Sower has indeed gone forth

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